“The question I now have [is] who on earth thought this was legal, moral or ethical?” Alexandra Glorioso Lawrence Mower miamiherald.com/news/politics-…

"Gone is “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Maya Angelou’s transformative best-selling 1970 memoir chronicling her struggles with racism and trauma. Two copies of “Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler are still on the shelves." nytimes.com/2025/04/11/us/…

💸Follow the DeSantis Medicaid money💸 1. Centene overbilled Florida by at least $67 million in federal Medicaid dollars. ⬇️ 2. In the settlement with Florida AHCA, DeSantis officials "directed" them to pay $10 million of the $67m to the charity Casey oversees, Hope Florida

Florida House to subpoena Attorney General James Uthmeier to get answers on Hope Florida money By ⁦Alexandra Glorioso⁩ ⁦Lawrence Mower⁩ miamiherald.com/news/politics-…

From the New York Times: "That someone as morally and scientifically confused as Kennedy is in charge of guiding our children’s health is a grave mistake." nytimes.com/2025/04/23/opi…

"According to the couple’s relatives, the authorities told them their tattoos looked suspicious, took them into custody and sent the girl to foster care." nytimes.com/2025/04/29/wor…

The Department of Homeland Security is vetting a pitch for a reality television show in which immigrants would compete against one another for U.S. citizenship. It‘s being pitched by the writer and producer behind A&E’s “Duck Dynasty.” washingtonpost.com/immigration/20…

ICE appeared in court in Miami to dismiss cases against migrants -- then handcuffed and arrested them in hallways as they left. A pending court case provides due process. Without a court case, the men can be quickly deported with no recourse. miamiherald.com/news/local/imm…

Florida child welfare authorities turned over a 17-year-old foster child to ICE agents, sparking intense criticism that the action could hinder efforts to protect children in the state’s large immigrant communities. Ana Ceballos Syra Ortiz Blanes miamiherald.com/news/politics-…

With the blessing of the federal government, the DeSantis administration on Monday began building an immigration detention center on an air strip deep in the Everglades. They call it Alligator Alcatraz. Ana Ceballos Syra Ortiz Blanes Alex Harris Doug Hanks miamiherald.com/news/local/imm…

Agents used a foster kid as bait to locate the child's parents. It's one example of how the Trump administration’s deportation campaign is encircling vulnerable children and squeezing the agencies tasked with caring for them. w/ Ana Ceballos Syra Ortiz Blanes miamiherald.com/news/politics-…

NEWS: Once off-limits, vulnerable children are becoming a cog in Trump's deportation efforts. In Florida, federal agents recently went to the offices of a state-funded children’s shelter, trying to find the undocumented parents. miamiherald.com/news/politics-… w/ Carol Marbin Miller Syra Ortiz Blanes

Chaos erupted at a Miami-Dade Commission meeting on Thursday as opponents of an ICE agreement with county jails were dragged out of the chambers after objecting to the board declining to vote on the deal. Doug Hanks miamiherald.com/news/local/com…

Isidro Perez is the fifth person to die in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in Florida this year. Half of all deaths since January in the agency’s custody nationwide have been in Florida. Syra Ortiz Blanes Claire Healy miamiherald.com/news/local/imm…

'Spineless capitulation.' Paramount faces growing backlash over its $16-million Trump settlement latimes.com/entertainment-…

Hundreds at Alligator Alcatraz have no criminal charges or convictions, records show miamiherald.com/news/local/imm…

Coming tomorrow. A collaboration between the Miami Herald and WLRN. wlrn.org/podcast/killer…

In New Mexico, a woman was prepped for donation, even after her family said that she seemed to be regaining consciousness, which she did. In Florida, a man cried and bit on his breathing tube but was still withdrawn from life support. Brian M. Rosenthal nytimes.com/2025/07/20/us/…

Lucky for us, Miami Herald Doug Hanks has been at every #MiamiDade budget town hall and has a keen perspective on what people are most upset about: The $40 cut from nonprofits that help some of the county's most vulnerable miamiherald.com/news/local/com…

NEW: A U.S. citizen recorded his arrest by Florida highway patrol troopers and Border Patrol agents. We pieced together the event and its aftermath with his video, dash-cam footage from patrol cars and interviews. w/ ⁦Claire Healy⁩ ⁦Syra Ortiz Blanes⁩ miamiherald.com/news/local/imm…